At the moment the emphasis on treating the Mentally Ill is via medication.  When, even as children, we know the terror of developing a Mental Illness that we react with hostility towards those that suffer surely we must do more than offer pills and platitude to the Mentally Ill.

Perhaps I should be more grateful that I can live in freedom but the barriers to people with Mental Illness are more or less "invisible" but they surely do exist.   We are satellites to Society and drift with ever increasing desperation to our Deaths.   Feigning compassion and concern when the patient is in our midst we shove them out the doors of Hospitals or Doctors surgeries to face the condemnation of fellow citizens until they top themselves.

In such a situation the abyss becomes too great to negotiate and the sufferer gives up and turns to whatever crutch is available.  The only way to address this chasm is to offer sheltered employment to those that live with Mental Illness.  Same for drug addicts and ex-prisoners.

I honestly believe that if we offer safe haven for those that do not succeed in the form of the salvation of work we will have a much more constructive Society.  Fiscally giving Hope would lessen crime and the need for Doctors and Psychiatrists and Hospitals and Prisons, that are great expenses, to pick up the pieces.